ager of E. C. Atkins & Co., saw manu- 

 facturers of Indianapolis, was a distin- 

 guished visitor in the machinery line dur- 

 ing the past fortnight, making his head- 

 quarters at the Waldorf-Astoria. 



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Hugh McLean, head of the McLean 

 hardwood lumber interests of Buffalo and 

 the West, passed through the city last 

 week, en route to Buffalo, after an ex- 

 tended tour of the eastern market, and 

 reports business as quite satisfactory. 



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J. W. Thompson, head of the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn., passed through the city last week, 

 en route home after a business trip to 



Boston and vicinity. 



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G. E. Hurdman, of Hurdman & Elmitt, 

 Ottawa, Can., was in town during the past 

 fortnight, looking over the trade. His 

 firm has just purchased about 150 square 

 miles of exceedingly choice basswood, 

 pine and spruce timber in the Ottawa 

 district and is going to make a specialty 

 of the basswood stock for the coming 

 year. Mr. Hurdman states that the bass- 

 wood on this tract is in compact bodies 

 and is as fine as he has ever seen, and 

 that his firm has erected a mill in the 

 timber and is going to have a very fine line 

 of basswood to offer during the winter and 



spring seasons. 



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Charles H. Stanton, surveyor-general of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion, headquarters Buffalo, was a visitor in 

 town for a few days during the fortnight, 

 on his way home from Baltimore, where 

 he was in conference with the Baltimore 

 Lumber Exchange officials in the matter 

 of the appointment of an oflicial inspector 

 for that market. Mr. J. C. Creamer was 



chosen. 



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John W. Wood, who is prominently con- 

 nected with the Jefferson Saw Mill Com- 

 pany, Ltd., New Orleans, La., spent sev- 

 eral days in town in the interest of Its 

 large line of cottonwood and cypress, and 

 reports business in that line to be very 



fair. 



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John L. Christy, of the wholesale hard- 

 wood firm of Christy, Moir & Co.. 149 

 Broadway, was united in marriage at Noro- 

 ton. Conn., on the 12th inst., to Miss Louise 

 Wilson, of that place. It was a distinct 

 society event, special cars containing .300 

 guests from the city being attached to the 

 11 o'clock Boston express. Mr. Christy 

 has made many friends in the local dis- 

 strict since his advent as a wholesaler. 



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W. B. McEwen, of the McEwenGibson 

 Lumber Company, hardwood manufactur- 

 ers of Asheville, N. C, passed through the 

 city on the 14th with his bride of a few 

 days, en route to New Haven, where they 

 will visit Mrs. McEwen's family. 



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Gouverneur E. Smith, the hardwood 



